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the carolina watchman vol xii thirb series salisbuby n c november 25 1880 the carolina watchman established in the yeah 1Â«.Â°,2 j-klrk l.3*i in advam'k contract advertising rates kkbm'akyuo ism iik-b'-s 1 month * ins 3 m's c ni's is ni's t'.'f.r | h--m 2 puto mt-f 8j two tor ' 3<h ' â™¦â€¢ 5 " â€¢* " mi !*.-Â» thru r ! *Â»â€¢Â»Â» i * ! â€¢ 0 â€¢â€¢Â»Â» h.to 15.99 four f-r i Â«-Â« h ' â€¢â€¢*Â» 9.91 13.59 ls.9 lcoloranfor su v.;s n ic.59 w.w .' j o i 11.45 15.75 | 40.50 s5.59 4(1.99 | ,],,.' 1 ' 1--i5 ic.45 83.75 4-..t5 75.99 m hall s i h 11j||Â»1wbiÂ«w i balsam i.1w.-.vwhwimi.i , cnri-s col-li pneumonia bronchitis minna croup yt hooping couth and ill diseases of tho breathing organs jt soothes and heals the membrane i.f ilio lungs inflamed and poisoned by tho disease and prevents tho night sweats and tightness armss the cheat which accompany it consumption is not an incurable malady it is only necessary to have t.'ic ri-ht remedy nml hall's balsa is 1 hat remedy dost bespaltt of relief for tills heiiilmi specific will cure you even thim-rli professional aid fails " henry's ehmicmiri the most powerful healing agent ever discovered ttrmru carlm'ie salve heals l.urtir henri carholie salvo rare sores llenrij * arl.o'.e salvo allays pain ilenrif's carbolic sale e are's erupt inn henry c.irltol'.r salve heals j.iinpl 1 hetuff'm i artn.ho sat re heal brutmes t,n for klenrjr mid take fio otiicr sr eitware op cocttekfettb t_;j townsley's tlllll 1011 cubes in one minute edey's carbolic troches a sliu preventive of contnfrioua diaoaaÂ»n colds hor.ror neu d.putheria and whooping cougi ' hmimj to the taste erai'i fayiitttri lltua mill i mb bb â– rcuov j i>ysp psia and sihoucncsa i r i or sale lly all druggists john f henry cttrran & co wil.k l-urtl-riktous ollflif place n"w york i for sale by t f kluttz druggist ufclj salteburv x (_'. james m gray attorney and counsellor at law salisiicily x c office in the court house lot next doo to squire ilaughton will practice in all the courts of the state i attobxey at law salisbuby,n.c i practices in the state and federal j courts l&6m i v 33k a-s kerr craige jutonun at ato ' sallabury st c blatter and henderson attorneys counselors and solicitors salisbury n c j*uaÂ»y29 1879 tt wms brown salisbury v c ocr in tin * * all low down !)> re copper 32isa23^~.n a Â» *Â«" n w stills jg srll stoves stove in full jgj r*cheaper than viiriity l';ir j k j-j issi j-*?"you eau buy â– 0 \ cook and â€žÂ£â– >-* 6?"*any where else w from t^-i b3f~ia this city li cheapest wi " n l ilir to the best ~ ' old stills on short notice n'ol tf lr if vod wish jpm your watches and i â€¢ v afci clocks sewing maeliines.&c â– i irv by a o<iil cheap and responsitjlw pleaae leave tliein with mes*rn vl'un ,* heuilleman salisbury n c ly k.l krowx mortgage deeds for sale here also various other blanf poetry | building on the sand tis well to woo tis well to wed for so the world hath done since myrtles grew and roses blew and morning brought the sun but have a care ye young and fair ik sure yc pledge with truth ; be certain that your lore will wear beyond the days of youth ! for if you give not heart for heart as well as hand for hand you'll rind you're played the unwise part and built upon the sand tis well to suvc tin well to have a goodly store of gold and hold enough of shining stuff for charity is cold but place nut all your hope ami trust in what the deep mine brings we cannot live on yellow dust unmixed with purer things and he who piles up wealth alone will often have to stand beside his coffer-chest and own tis built upon the sand tis good to speak in kindly guise and soothe where'r we can ; fair speech should bind the human mind and love link man to man but stop not at the gentle words let deeds with language dwell ; the one who pities starving birds should scatter crumbs as well ; the mercy that is warm and true must lend a helping hand for those that talk yet fail to do but build upon the sand â€” home laf in song political the vote in person for the house was a tie betweeu jas holeman democrat and c s w instead han cock republican at a meet ing of the county commissioners on the 6th inst was decided in favor of colonel winstead it is now said that horatio sey mour jr who is the only democrat on the state of canvassers in new york will object to the counting of the electoral vote of that state for garfield and upon his protest the matter will undergo investigation at ! the hands of congress ward ljeechcr orated last stin dany on the text a good name is i rather to be chosen than great riches i ... ward knows how it is himself sup pose garfield had never denied his transactions with oakes ames when he denied the forged mo rev letter he would have been believed but as it was his mere denial amounted to noth ing â€” wil star the congressional vote the following is the majorities of the two candidates tor congress in this district : alexander 409 alleghanv 222 forsyth ' 24 iredell 626 rowan 625 surry 387 watauga 130 2423 furches majorities : ashe 5 davie 71 wilkes 129 yadkin 274 479 armfield's majority 1944 . Â»â– â– â– Â» - the new york herald says it con fidently expects to see a vigorous administration party arise among the intelligent classes of the south was not the herald among those papers that made some such prophecy in 1877 about the hayes administra tion ? it talks about the south frank ly accepting the situation ac that is precisely what the south has done since 1866 and still it is suspected and the bloody shirt flapped victori ously throughout the north a few weeks ago wil star the practice of paying contestants of seats in congress the salary and mile age of members is a custom more honored in the broach than iu the ob servance and ought to be discoutin tied by all partjes it is a fraud on the people wjiose money is thus squan dered no contestant who fails to get the seat claimed ought to be allowed anything more than his necessary ex penses and theu only when the com mittee investigating shall have re ported that there was good ground for making the coolest â€” fayeltevillc ex aminer the democratic party the following tribute to the dem ! ocratic party is from the pen of that staunch old-line whig c v but j ton esq the democratic party though out of power for the last twenty years has accomplished much good in that it has at least kept the re i publican party that is a federal par ty and nothing less from running riot over the liberties of the people and the rights of the states it has k<-pt alive in the hearts of the people the true doctrines of the founders of i the government ; and it has shown a vitality out of power that no other party ever did or ever will iu this country it holds a majority of the people of the united states to-day and but for bad management in some of the states and the existence of two factions in the great state of new york it would have succeeded in se curing a majority of the electoral votes of the states and hancock in stead of garfield would now be the president elect these views with others that might be presented forbid it seems to us the disbaiidment of the great democratic party ; for if it accomp lish no good it will at least keep the next republican administration with in due bounds and conserve the best interests of the country and that is what the party of the constitution whether in or out of power should desire and what every pariotic states rights democrat should rejoice to see the republicans having obtained a majority at the late election in the city are systematically at work to se cure it for the future the plan is this all the wealthy republicans and the republican press are discharg ing white laborers where skilled labor is not required and filling their places with negroes from kentucky and the two virginias the whites who are being discharged will be compelled to go elsewhere for emplyment and from 500 to 700 negroes will take their places on the voting lists the white laborer cannot be depended on to vote the republican ticket ; the negro can this colonization is not being carried on in columbus alone but in a num ber of democratic cities where a few hundred reliable republican votes will prevent the election of democrat ic senators and representatives in the legislature next winter here in ohio colonization of the colored peo ple of the south is being adopted as a system and for the purpose of making ohio solidly republican for many years to come making votes in ohio the method manufacturers in colum bus adopted to make democrats cast republican votes special dispatch lo the world columbus nov 15 â€” the colum bus buggy company of this city is one of the largest in this country and over coo voters are employed by its managers the large majority of them are democrats the company sells nearly all of its work in the south and has built up an immense busi ness and its managers have made for tunes before the late election they notifi ed their employees that if hancock was elected they would shut down the works while if garfied was elected they would not only be able to main tain present prices for labor but in crease them their lawyer further posted them how to managed the work men and still not evade the statutes a census was taken of the voters and printed lists with name age and resi dence were placed at all the polling places where any of them voted and under the eye of the republican tick et-holder and challenger by this means not a single one of them could vote the democratic ticket without be ing detected and feeling tliat detec tion meant dismtssal nearly or quite 400 democrats voted the republican ticket and columbus instead of giv ing a democratic majority gave a re publican majority as man other re publican employers adopted similar methods now the employees of the buggy company have been informed tlia ' they will get 20 per cent of their wages in cash and the remainder in store orders the stores of course put up the prices on the workinginen and make a heavy discount to the com pany so that the wages of the work inginen will be cut down from 20 to 25 j>er cent in addition to being dis franchised at the polls because some thousands of the riff raff voters of new york so-called democrats were purchased by the radical millions some of our south ern exchnngÂ»s are saying that hereaf ter we can put but little confidence in the faithfulness of so-called demo crats in the north ' this is hardly fair it is not right to judge of any party by its poorest material a man who can be bought cannot be trusted we believe the true democrats of the north are just as reliable as those of the south and wc think the past his tory of our party shows it most con clusively new york is cursed with treacherous and dangerous politicians it is to be regretted rut are all south ern so-called democrats to be relied upon do they never sellout and betray the party is there not talk now of abandoning and scuttling the old democratic ship â€” wtl star west x v railroad mr rest Â«& co have changed the gauge of the western n.c railroad so as to make it correspond with that of the richmond and danville road heretofore the gauge was 4 feet 8 inches which corresponded with that of the a t Â£ o road from char lotte to statesville and with the car olina central from charlotte to wil mington we deeply regret that this change should have been deemed nec essary by the owners of the road but it is their property and they have the right to regulate the gauge as the interest of the mail may require they have a herculean task placed on their shoulders by the terms of the contract of sale involving the building of one hundred and sixty miles of railroad through a rough mountain country this task the state was itself unable to perform although under a pledge to perform it to have carried out that pledge would have involved an amount of taxation which the people of north carolina were unable to un able to endure it was a practical impossibility lo carry it out at that juncture gov jarvis saw a method by which the state could bo relieved of this great responsibility and a rea sonable guaranty afforded that the road would be built he laid the proposition of sale before the general assembly they approved it by an overwhelming vote of the members of both political parties and the road passed into the hands of rest & co they take it subject to an enormous burden actual and prospective and to deny them now the right to manage it according to their own judgment would not be fair and just â€” fayctte ville examiner jute in the south â€” cotton a new york journal devoted to the great staples says we make the fol lowing extract from a recent letter from mr w h oliver of newbern n c i yesterday showed a cotton bagging manufacturer from patterson n j a specimen of jute raised here it is from 15 to 17 feet high he was much astonished at it having no idea that such coulil be raised in a few years every yard of cotton bagging used iu this country will be manufac tured at the south from jute raised here you can mark this as a pre diction from me the ashcville citizen appears to think charlotte ought to be abundantly satisfied with the freight rate to that point saying perishable goods such as apples cabbages and onions are now carried over tho west ern north carolina railroad to charlotte at 15 cents per cwt freight on the same goods to salisbury is 18 cents per cwt we don't see that charlotte has any right to complain at this discrimination flour meal and grain s shipped to charlotte at 36 cents per cwt chestnuts are shipped to charlotte at 40 cents per cut and to salis bury at 39 cents char observer there has been more discrimination to the damage of salisbury without complaint than to any town in the state and this too in the face of her liberal efforts to build railruttd-i i miscellaneous about ghosts and ghost storizs i think i had heard a thousand and one awful ghost stories by the time i was fif teen years old indeed in some families the staple of conversation on long winter nights was about ghosts and witches aud warlicks and hobgoblins and long nebed things the negroes indulged in these things as much if not more than the white people when i was a boy their stories were always more frightful than those of the white people they were told in the dim light of the fires in their cabins at night the large white of a negroe's eye behind such a black ground iu a dim light adds much to the effectiveness of a ghost story i have shivered from head to foot as these stories have been told with an air of the most awful truthfulness and with a rigid exactness of detail my hair would stand on end or at least feel like it did ami the cold chills would chase one another up and down my back for hours at a time when i started home from the negro cabins i would run every jump of the way and get into bed and cover up my head until i was almost smothered i almost hated the negroes for telling me such awful stories and yet i could not rest till i got into their cabins aud pro voked them to the recital to this good day i have not been able to understand why i loved to hear a class of stories that gave me so much trouble as ghost stories did when i was a boy i notice that children now are just as fond of these stories as i was and that they are affect ed by them in the same way i have no ticed also that many old people arc simi larly affected by millennial theories and all that partakes of the mysterious and wonderful in preaching any thing that is shrouded in mystery or that is to trans pire tit some future time has a wonderful fascination for them this is the class to which clairvoyants spirit-rappers and for tune-tellers appeal it is a large class and the more ignorant they are the more ready they are to swallow down as jos pel truth that which an angel from hea ven eould not understand my mother did all she could to unsettle my faith in ghosts and all ghost stories it was sim ply wonderful how the best planned sto ries would wither away at her touch i felt like a fool that i did not see the weak point in them before mother got hold of a story that was hitched together like linked sweetness long drawn out i would detail it to mother with the air of triumph that characterizes a profound logician only to see it melt like snow be fore her breath 1 never saw but one ghost in my life though i hunted for them often it was in a graveyard about twelve o'clock on a calm clear moonlight night i was then about fifteen years old 1 saw it plainly it had a body as white as snow and was ten feet high 1 saw its head eyes arms legs and feet with most harrowing dis tinctness i was cold all over and my heart was up iu my throat and choked me there was a%uwfnl and most un earthly groaning in the graveyard if i had run away as most people do at such times i would have been qualified to the facts as detailed but they were only fan cies as you will see my mother had often promised to give me fifty dollars for a ghost if i would catch one and bring it home this was my first chance to make the money so after silent prayer to god for help and protection i ventured up to my ghost step by step but very slowly it grew bigger and more ghostlike the nearer 1 got to it it was one of the greatest ef forts of my life to approach that awful looking object when i was about ten feet from it the ghost vanished and there stood before me the white palings around my father's grave my imagination had conjured up the balance the groaning proceeded from a lot of hogs that had made a bed in the graveyard this was the first last and only ghost i ever saw iu my life after that i had no faith iu ghosts nor iu ghost stories xow boys when you see anything you do not understand go to it and find out what it is ami generally you will find it as harmless as the ghost i saw so distinct ly â€” gilder og in macon advocate it is a real wonder that ijilderoy after all his good training never saw more than one ghost i had a very similar training but was more successful than lie having seen one ghost i never could account for and several others which evaded me on approaching them by turning themselves into blazes on trees white po-.ts or anishing away entire ly i will relate one little scare : it was the day before easter i was in the loft of a large oln barn searching every cor ner where the hay and fodder were stowed away for hen nests i had gone in with eager expectation of finding eggs for the holiday and was as busy as a boy could be whose happiness depended on the venture true it was broad day light but the barn was large and gloomy : and i was alone i had just comp'eted the search of the darkest corner in the loft and had risen from hands and knees with my face to the walls it i had crawled off as i went with eyes peering into holes in the hay { should have no story to tell ; but i did not just ns i rose to my feet within two feet of my eyes setting on the wall plate of the old shell was the en tire skull of a man clean mul white and grinning at nie with its naked teeth and peering at me through great empty eye sockets it was the first thing of the kind i had ever seen though 1 had heard of raw head and bloody bones " i had the manli ness not to faint and to make no outcry ; but i did vacate that am loft with surpris ing agility hail any one seen me they would have thought the devil wnsaftc ie i got outside of it quick pale and trembling from head to foot but i had not seen the sun light aud felt its genial rays scarcely a minute before i was re-established my ghost experiences had preceded this adven ture i knew they were airy nothings and very soon mustered courage to go back and take a second look to assure myself of what i had seen it was still in its place simply because it had no power to move subse quent inquiring revealed the fact that it was the skull of a man who seme months bctore had been hung in those days the bodies of executed criminals fell into the hands of the local doctors the skull in question was the property ot dr ashbel smith now of texas though it had formerly wen the head piece of a man named sam kelly c reading & a fine art the state census tells us how many peo ple are able to read but it does not say how many are able to read my good reading is a luxury somewhat rare but very attractive when it can be had there are few ways of passing a winter evening more delightful than in listening to choice extracts from ftie best writers read by one who appreciates the sentiment of the author but is also able to render it im pressively there are some poems which cannot be appreciated without the aid of the living voice the nun-ic of the rhythm does not reach the soul through the eye a composition which is comparatively commonplace may be wonderfully trans formed by the human voice daniel web ster once came home from church after hearing the late dr h preach who had such a musical instrument in his throat that he was able to charm everybody by his exquisite tone and accent and remark 1 ed to a friend that lie had just heard the greatest sermon to which he had ever lis ened in his life his friend borrowed the manuscript from the author and asked permission to read the discourse in his own plain way to mr webster and when he had finished the great american ora tor said that could not be the same sermon he had heard with the absence of the speakers tone all the charm had vanished if good reading is a great luxury bad reading is a great abomination some very ordinary readers are particularly fond of reading to their families and friends when the tit seizes them there is no escape and hour after hour they hob ble along like a creaking cart drawn by a spavined horse over a rough pavement stumbling at all the hard words aud nev er getting on at a decent pace even when the ways are smoothest it is very dreary to be obliged to sit still and listen respect fully while the respected head of the household mumbles on mixing up the consonants and mistaking the emphasis and inverting the accents and it is not much better when the more ambitious paterfamilias strikes off in a lofty key and moves on with slow and pompous tread rolling the it's thundering out all the big words and overwhelming you with the dull monotony of vociferatiou there is also a sing-song style of reading not so offensive but it is as lulling as the racks of a cradle and works like an ano dyne then there are others who have no striking defects and yet they arc unat tractive they read mechanically with out much light and shade or any special feeling or variety offline and accent and you are always glad when they are through the best hand-organ wearies one after a while there are many public men whose busi ness it is to use their voice who are very poor readers this may be owing to some natural defect of which they are not con scious ami which at any rate they have never taken the pains to correct their breathing apparatus is in poor order or badly treated the mechanism of the throat does not work freely ; the jaws and tongue and lips do not move flexibly : the pitch of the voice is unnatural or the volume is defective or the tone is artifical ; and it may 1m that none of the organs of speech seem to have fair play others who have no special natural de fects are poor readers from simple indif ference they never try to read well and care very little whether their tones accord with the sentiment or not they are superior to such trifling considera tions and will tell you that if they can manage to make themselves intelligible they are content to let the grocer of elo tion go when for the want of some of these graces they do not make the xeum of the sentence intelligible they look down upon the art of reading with con tempt and will leave all that sort of thing to the stage-players there are multitudes of men iu the min istry who are bad readers for the want of early training if they have never learn ed how to read liefore entering college w the seminary they are not likely to leara there there is little done in these insti tutions to teach men how to handle the instrument by which they are to get their living the result is deplorable many a poor clergyman is left in the cold be cause the people cauuot euduie the wear i '-<â€¢<><>. hw crances h hi character is i good he ls zealous and anxious to work | he is fall of theology be can write a terr â€¢â– â– â€¢â€¢â– ; htm.o bin heeanuoturi/eirttfe rbcru are wiim j ,-.,,, into u t . t . lt . u - it uiannr-risiu acquire tricksaf speech or affect riiici.-,l tones which are fatal or â– y may be simply dull and drearv with out any life aud spring to the voice anr variety j expressions and this also is fatal so far as skill in reading is concerned there is a great difference in the native aptitude of people and just as some are born painters so there are those who would seem to be born readers of course they do not obtain cmi.iei.ee without prac tice neither does any artist in onv de partment there is a difference not only in the capacity of the rue organs but also in that sense f ntu<yj!i bv w , k>h voice regulates itself in order to give proper expression to the sentiment it is not possible for all persons to become su perior readers any mure than it is for all to become great singers ; nature forbids it sometimes you meet with a person who because he can make a loud noise and has a big trumpet iu his throat and can explode at intervals as if he had also a set of cartridges there and rise and fall like a ship iu a storm imagines himself to be a great reader and indicts himself upon his community accordingly alas for the reading clnb of which be becomes a member ! to tame him down and bring him anywhere within bounds is impossi ble rut in these clubs it ought to be understood that then shall always be al lowed the freest and plainest criticism and such as are unwilling to submit to this should withdraw with this under standing a heading i may be of in estimable service in correcting defects of which the members themselves are un conscious and also in elevating the gen eral standard of reading with all the mem bers in our smaller towns and villages where there are very lew forma of social amusement a reading club well con ducted may prove to be both edifying and agreeable it will bring out much latent talent ami il may not be a bad thing to give an occasional public read ing for the benefit of the community at large good reading is more instructive than charades more satisfactory than ordi nary private theatricals and much less rx . pensive ami more wholesome than dancing parties and balls while it entertains and amuse it may be made to elevate the liter ary tone of society reading as one of the tine arts has not received its proper share of attention two of the most delightful intellectual treats that i ever enjoyed were the listening to one of shakespeare's play as read by fanny kemble and to a rich selection f miscel laneous prose and poetry as read by the late lamented charlotte cushman kembles and cushmans are rare ( imodities but they might not he so rear if more interest were manifested in reading as a tine art bishoj clarke f lilwde island in netr york ledger so live that when thy summons comes to to join the innumbcrablc caravan which moves to that mysterious realm where each shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death thou go not like the quarry-slave at night scourged to his dudgeon but sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust approach thy grave like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams william cuilen ltryant the democrats will learn something after awhile judge terry democratic elector in california is beaten while all the rest of the ticket is elected mr ack len of louisiana is also beaten for con gress iu a district largely democratic both were unfortunate nominations and only serve to remind us that the day for the triumph of machine 11 polities is well nigh played out charlotte observer a little fellow t iiiiiing over the leaves of a scrap book came across the well-known picture of some chickens just out of the shell he examined the picture carefully and then with a grave sagacious look slowly remarked they came out cos they was rfraid of being boiled an ohio girl sued a man for breach of promise and proved him such a mean scoundrel that the jury deci ded that she ought to pay him some thing for not marrying her a little boy says : when cats is a swear in and a blasfemin and tr*yin the gages of their steam idlers in the back yard at nite it makes a feller awful frudc if he ain't sleepin with ; his big brother it appears that the project to establish a high school in morgan ton undercharge of the episcopal church has been aban doned the property donated by citizens is in a bad way don't spend all your suhiry what ever it is don't run iu debt

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the carolina watchman vol xii thirb series salisbuby n c november 25 1880 the carolina watchman established in the yeah 1Â«.Â°,2 j-klrk l.3*i in advam'k contract advertising rates kkbm'akyuo ism iik-b'-s 1 month * ins 3 m's c ni's is ni's t'.'f.r | h--m 2 puto mt-f 8j two tor ' 3ysp psia and sihoucncsa i r i or sale lly all druggists john f henry cttrran & co wil.k l-urtl-riktous ollflif place n"w york i for sale by t f kluttz druggist ufclj salteburv x (_'. james m gray attorney and counsellor at law salisiicily x c office in the court house lot next doo to squire ilaughton will practice in all the courts of the state i attobxey at law salisbuby,n.c i practices in the state and federal j courts l&6m i v 33k a-s kerr craige jutonun at ato ' sallabury st c blatter and henderson attorneys counselors and solicitors salisbury n c j*uaÂ»y29 1879 tt wms brown salisbury v c ocr in tin * * all low down !)> re copper 32isa23^~.n a Â» *Â«" n w stills jg srll stoves stove in full jgj r*cheaper than viiriity l';ir j k j-j issi j-*?"you eau buy â– 0 \ cook and â€žÂ£â– >-* 6?"*any where else w from t^-i b3f~ia this city li cheapest wi " n l ilir to the best ~ ' old stills on short notice n'ol tf lr if vod wish jpm your watches and i â€¢ v afci clocks sewing maeliines.&c â– i irv by a oer cent in addition to being dis franchised at the polls because some thousands of the riff raff voters of new york so-called democrats were purchased by the radical millions some of our south ern exchnngÂ»s are saying that hereaf ter we can put but little confidence in the faithfulness of so-called demo crats in the north ' this is hardly fair it is not right to judge of any party by its poorest material a man who can be bought cannot be trusted we believe the true democrats of the north are just as reliable as those of the south and wc think the past his tory of our party shows it most con clusively new york is cursed with treacherous and dangerous politicians it is to be regretted rut are all south ern so-called democrats to be relied upon do they never sellout and betray the party is there not talk now of abandoning and scuttling the old democratic ship â€” wtl star west x v railroad mr rest Â«& co have changed the gauge of the western n.c railroad so as to make it correspond with that of the richmond and danville road heretofore the gauge was 4 feet 8 inches which corresponded with that of the a t Â£ o road from char lotte to statesville and with the car olina central from charlotte to wil mington we deeply regret that this change should have been deemed nec essary by the owners of the road but it is their property and they have the right to regulate the gauge as the interest of the mail may require they have a herculean task placed on their shoulders by the terms of the contract of sale involving the building of one hundred and sixty miles of railroad through a rough mountain country this task the state was itself unable to perform although under a pledge to perform it to have carried out that pledge would have involved an amount of taxation which the people of north carolina were unable to un able to endure it was a practical impossibility lo carry it out at that juncture gov jarvis saw a method by which the state could bo relieved of this great responsibility and a rea sonable guaranty afforded that the road would be built he laid the proposition of sale before the general assembly they approved it by an overwhelming vote of the members of both political parties and the road passed into the hands of rest & co they take it subject to an enormous burden actual and prospective and to deny them now the right to manage it according to their own judgment would not be fair and just â€” fayctte ville examiner jute in the south â€” cotton a new york journal devoted to the great staples says we make the fol lowing extract from a recent letter from mr w h oliver of newbern n c i yesterday showed a cotton bagging manufacturer from patterson n j a specimen of jute raised here it is from 15 to 17 feet high he was much astonished at it having no idea that such coulil be raised in a few years every yard of cotton bagging used iu this country will be manufac tured at the south from jute raised here you can mark this as a pre diction from me the ashcville citizen appears to think charlotte ought to be abundantly satisfied with the freight rate to that point saying perishable goods such as apples cabbages and onions are now carried over tho west ern north carolina railroad to charlotte at 15 cents per cwt freight on the same goods to salisbury is 18 cents per cwt we don't see that charlotte has any right to complain at this discrimination flour meal and grain s shipped to charlotte at 36 cents per cwt chestnuts are shipped to charlotte at 40 cents per cut and to salis bury at 39 cents char observer there has been more discrimination to the damage of salisbury without complaint than to any town in the state and this too in the face of her liberal efforts to build railruttd-i i miscellaneous about ghosts and ghost storizs i think i had heard a thousand and one awful ghost stories by the time i was fif teen years old indeed in some families the staple of conversation on long winter nights was about ghosts and witches aud warlicks and hobgoblins and long nebed things the negroes indulged in these things as much if not more than the white people when i was a boy their stories were always more frightful than those of the white people they were told in the dim light of the fires in their cabins at night the large white of a negroe's eye behind such a black ground iu a dim light adds much to the effectiveness of a ghost story i have shivered from head to foot as these stories have been told with an air of the most awful truthfulness and with a rigid exactness of detail my hair would stand on end or at least feel like it did ami the cold chills would chase one another up and down my back for hours at a time when i started home from the negro cabins i would run every jump of the way and get into bed and cover up my head until i was almost smothered i almost hated the negroes for telling me such awful stories and yet i could not rest till i got into their cabins aud pro voked them to the recital to this good day i have not been able to understand why i loved to hear a class of stories that gave me so much trouble as ghost stories did when i was a boy i notice that children now are just as fond of these stories as i was and that they are affect ed by them in the same way i have no ticed also that many old people arc simi larly affected by millennial theories and all that partakes of the mysterious and wonderful in preaching any thing that is shrouded in mystery or that is to trans pire tit some future time has a wonderful fascination for them this is the class to which clairvoyants spirit-rappers and for tune-tellers appeal it is a large class and the more ignorant they are the more ready they are to swallow down as jos pel truth that which an angel from hea ven eould not understand my mother did all she could to unsettle my faith in ghosts and all ghost stories it was sim ply wonderful how the best planned sto ries would wither away at her touch i felt like a fool that i did not see the weak point in them before mother got hold of a story that was hitched together like linked sweetness long drawn out i would detail it to mother with the air of triumph that characterizes a profound logician only to see it melt like snow be fore her breath 1 never saw but one ghost in my life though i hunted for them often it was in a graveyard about twelve o'clock on a calm clear moonlight night i was then about fifteen years old 1 saw it plainly it had a body as white as snow and was ten feet high 1 saw its head eyes arms legs and feet with most harrowing dis tinctness i was cold all over and my heart was up iu my throat and choked me there was a%uwfnl and most un earthly groaning in the graveyard if i had run away as most people do at such times i would have been qualified to the facts as detailed but they were only fan cies as you will see my mother had often promised to give me fifty dollars for a ghost if i would catch one and bring it home this was my first chance to make the money so after silent prayer to god for help and protection i ventured up to my ghost step by step but very slowly it grew bigger and more ghostlike the nearer 1 got to it it was one of the greatest ef forts of my life to approach that awful looking object when i was about ten feet from it the ghost vanished and there stood before me the white palings around my father's grave my imagination had conjured up the balance the groaning proceeded from a lot of hogs that had made a bed in the graveyard this was the first last and only ghost i ever saw iu my life after that i had no faith iu ghosts nor iu ghost stories xow boys when you see anything you do not understand go to it and find out what it is ami generally you will find it as harmless as the ghost i saw so distinct ly â€” gilder og in macon advocate it is a real wonder that ijilderoy after all his good training never saw more than one ghost i had a very similar training but was more successful than lie having seen one ghost i never could account for and several others which evaded me on approaching them by turning themselves into blazes on trees white po-.ts or anishing away entire ly i will relate one little scare : it was the day before easter i was in the loft of a large oln barn searching every cor ner where the hay and fodder were stowed away for hen nests i had gone in with eager expectation of finding eggs for the holiday and was as busy as a boy could be whose happiness depended on the venture true it was broad day light but the barn was large and gloomy : and i was alone i had just comp'eted the search of the darkest corner in the loft and had risen from hands and knees with my face to the walls it i had crawled off as i went with eyes peering into holes in the hay { should have no story to tell ; but i did not just ns i rose to my feet within two feet of my eyes setting on the wall plate of the old shell was the en tire skull of a man clean mul white and grinning at nie with its naked teeth and peering at me through great empty eye sockets it was the first thing of the kind i had ever seen though 1 had heard of raw head and bloody bones " i had the manli ness not to faint and to make no outcry ; but i did vacate that am loft with surpris ing agility hail any one seen me they would have thought the devil wnsaftc ie i got outside of it quick pale and trembling from head to foot but i had not seen the sun light aud felt its genial rays scarcely a minute before i was re-established my ghost experiences had preceded this adven ture i knew they were airy nothings and very soon mustered courage to go back and take a second look to assure myself of what i had seen it was still in its place simply because it had no power to move subse quent inquiring revealed the fact that it was the skull of a man who seme months bctore had been hung in those days the bodies of executed criminals fell into the hands of the local doctors the skull in question was the property ot dr ashbel smith now of texas though it had formerly wen the head piece of a man named sam kelly c reading & a fine art the state census tells us how many peo ple are able to read but it does not say how many are able to read my good reading is a luxury somewhat rare but very attractive when it can be had there are few ways of passing a winter evening more delightful than in listening to choice extracts from ftie best writers read by one who appreciates the sentiment of the author but is also able to render it im pressively there are some poems which cannot be appreciated without the aid of the living voice the nun-ic of the rhythm does not reach the soul through the eye a composition which is comparatively commonplace may be wonderfully trans formed by the human voice daniel web ster once came home from church after hearing the late dr h preach who had such a musical instrument in his throat that he was able to charm everybody by his exquisite tone and accent and remark 1 ed to a friend that lie had just heard the greatest sermon to which he had ever lis ened in his life his friend borrowed the manuscript from the author and asked permission to read the discourse in his own plain way to mr webster and when he had finished the great american ora tor said that could not be the same sermon he had heard with the absence of the speakers tone all the charm had vanished if good reading is a great luxury bad reading is a great abomination some very ordinary readers are particularly fond of reading to their families and friends when the tit seizes them there is no escape and hour after hour they hob ble along like a creaking cart drawn by a spavined horse over a rough pavement stumbling at all the hard words aud nev er getting on at a decent pace even when the ways are smoothest it is very dreary to be obliged to sit still and listen respect fully while the respected head of the household mumbles on mixing up the consonants and mistaking the emphasis and inverting the accents and it is not much better when the more ambitious paterfamilias strikes off in a lofty key and moves on with slow and pompous tread rolling the it's thundering out all the big words and overwhelming you with the dull monotony of vociferatiou there is also a sing-song style of reading not so offensive but it is as lulling as the racks of a cradle and works like an ano dyne then there are others who have no striking defects and yet they arc unat tractive they read mechanically with out much light and shade or any special feeling or variety offline and accent and you are always glad when they are through the best hand-organ wearies one after a while there are many public men whose busi ness it is to use their voice who are very poor readers this may be owing to some natural defect of which they are not con scious ami which at any rate they have never taken the pains to correct their breathing apparatus is in poor order or badly treated the mechanism of the throat does not work freely ; the jaws and tongue and lips do not move flexibly : the pitch of the voice is unnatural or the volume is defective or the tone is artifical ; and it may 1m that none of the organs of speech seem to have fair play others who have no special natural de fects are poor readers from simple indif ference they never try to read well and care very little whether their tones accord with the sentiment or not they are superior to such trifling considera tions and will tell you that if they can manage to make themselves intelligible they are content to let the grocer of elo tion go when for the want of some of these graces they do not make the xeum of the sentence intelligible they look down upon the art of reading with con tempt and will leave all that sort of thing to the stage-players there are multitudes of men iu the min istry who are bad readers for the want of early training if they have never learn ed how to read liefore entering college w the seminary they are not likely to leara there there is little done in these insti tutions to teach men how to handle the instrument by which they are to get their living the result is deplorable many a poor clergyman is left in the cold be cause the people cauuot euduie the wear i '-<>. hw crances h hi character is i good he ls zealous and anxious to work | he is fall of theology be can write a terr â€¢â– â– â€¢â€¢â– ; htm.o bin heeanuoturi/eirttfe rbcru are wiim j ,-.,,, into u t . t . lt . u - it uiannr-risiu acquire tricksaf speech or affect riiici.-,l tones which are fatal or â– y may be simply dull and drearv with out any life aud spring to the voice anr variety j expressions and this also is fatal so far as skill in reading is concerned there is a great difference in the native aptitude of people and just as some are born painters so there are those who would seem to be born readers of course they do not obtain cmi.iei.ee without prac tice neither does any artist in onv de partment there is a difference not only in the capacity of the rue organs but also in that sense f ntuh voice regulates itself in order to give proper expression to the sentiment it is not possible for all persons to become su perior readers any mure than it is for all to become great singers ; nature forbids it sometimes you meet with a person who because he can make a loud noise and has a big trumpet iu his throat and can explode at intervals as if he had also a set of cartridges there and rise and fall like a ship iu a storm imagines himself to be a great reader and indicts himself upon his community accordingly alas for the reading clnb of which be becomes a member ! to tame him down and bring him anywhere within bounds is impossi ble rut in these clubs it ought to be understood that then shall always be al lowed the freest and plainest criticism and such as are unwilling to submit to this should withdraw with this under standing a heading i may be of in estimable service in correcting defects of which the members themselves are un conscious and also in elevating the gen eral standard of reading with all the mem bers in our smaller towns and villages where there are very lew forma of social amusement a reading club well con ducted may prove to be both edifying and agreeable it will bring out much latent talent ami il may not be a bad thing to give an occasional public read ing for the benefit of the community at large good reading is more instructive than charades more satisfactory than ordi nary private theatricals and much less rx . pensive ami more wholesome than dancing parties and balls while it entertains and amuse it may be made to elevate the liter ary tone of society reading as one of the tine arts has not received its proper share of attention two of the most delightful intellectual treats that i ever enjoyed were the listening to one of shakespeare's play as read by fanny kemble and to a rich selection f miscel laneous prose and poetry as read by the late lamented charlotte cushman kembles and cushmans are rare ( imodities but they might not he so rear if more interest were manifested in reading as a tine art bishoj clarke f lilwde island in netr york ledger so live that when thy summons comes to to join the innumbcrablc caravan which moves to that mysterious realm where each shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death thou go not like the quarry-slave at night scourged to his dudgeon but sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust approach thy grave like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams william cuilen ltryant the democrats will learn something after awhile judge terry democratic elector in california is beaten while all the rest of the ticket is elected mr ack len of louisiana is also beaten for con gress iu a district largely democratic both were unfortunate nominations and only serve to remind us that the day for the triumph of machine 11 polities is well nigh played out charlotte observer a little fellow t iiiiiing over the leaves of a scrap book came across the well-known picture of some chickens just out of the shell he examined the picture carefully and then with a grave sagacious look slowly remarked they came out cos they was rfraid of being boiled an ohio girl sued a man for breach of promise and proved him such a mean scoundrel that the jury deci ded that she ought to pay him some thing for not marrying her a little boy says : when cats is a swear in and a blasfemin and tr*yin the gages of their steam idlers in the back yard at nite it makes a feller awful frudc if he ain't sleepin with ; his big brother it appears that the project to establish a high school in morgan ton undercharge of the episcopal church has been aban doned the property donated by citizens is in a bad way don't spend all your suhiry what ever it is don't run iu debt